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This is off topic, but in the recent months there has been an influx of these informative blog posts with animated gifs that are not really relevant to the info
by ambiate 13y ago
This is off topic, but in the recent months there has been an influx of these informative blog posts with animated gifs that are not really relevant to the information. Is this just a side effect of being a Tumblr user/community member? The more snarky pictures, the higher your view count/loyalty?
I ask, because they are distracting and shred any seriousness laid out in the article. Some of these articles are rich in content, but reading them at work with flashing/animated nonsense feels like I am viewing Reddit to people passing by.
- fusiongyro 13y agoI hate to say it, but I agree completely. Forgive me for wanting engineering articles to look like... engineering. I wonder if this is just a generational thing. I don't have a bucket full of GIFs to drop on an article. It seems to be tapering off lately, but it used to irk me greatly when a technical blog article would have a bunch of random photos stitched in that had absolutely nothing to do with the content.
- acdha 13y agohttps://insouciant.org/tech/network-congestion-and-web-browsing/ https://insouciant.org/tech/network-congestion-and-web-brows... had me thinking the same thing: useful post, better with a text-only view.